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  Veoh ruling: Portents
  for Google, YouTube

  In the Veoh video copyright case and in Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube, there's a key difference: whether the plaintiff sent take-down notices.
  • Veoh wins copyright infringement lawsuit

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  The highs and lows
  of digital drama

  images A look back at a decade--yes, a decade--of Web series from sitcoms to thrillers to musicals that both succeeded and flopped.

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• Apple applies for touch-screen Mac patent

  A recent patent application filed on behalf of Apple describes technology for controlling a touch-screen Mac tablet with iPhone-like gestures and controls.
  • Why Apple should release a touch-screen Mac

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Google announces Android Market for phone apps

  The search giant is fleshing out its mobile-phone effort with the Android Market to let users find, buy, and download applications.

  (Posted in Wireless by Stephen Shankland)

• Power-control software blamed for iPhone 3G reception issues

  A flaky power-control algorithm within the iPhone 3G seems to be a likely cause of the persistent reception problems that have plagued early adopters.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Shuttle's Atom-powered mini desktop gets a price: $189

  Tiny desktop's price tag is far below the Eee Box and Dell Studio Hybrid. And that's not the cheapest PC Shuttle makes.

  (Posted in Crave by Erica Ogg)

• Wind energy bumps into power grid's limits

  Clean energy's dirty secret is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.
  (From The New York Times)

• Best Western details hack of German hotel

  Hotel chain admits systems in a Berlin hotel were compromised but claims only 10 customers have been affected, not the 8 million cited in a newspaper report.

  (Posted in Security by Tom Espiner)

• Mozilla's Google subsidy to last three more years

  Open-source developer extends until 2011 the Google search partnership that's provided the vast majority of the revenue for the backer of the Firefox Web browser.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Stephen Shankland)

• YouTube gets closed captioning support

  Users now can embed closed captions that show up as semitransparent overlays in videos. No word yet, though, on a mobile version.

  (Posted in Webware by Josh Lowensohn)

• Target settles with blind patrons over site accessibility

  Retail giant will pay $6 million to plaintiffs and promises to embed Target.com with code that makes it fully usable by blind visitors, ending a class action suit.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Michelle Meyers)

• Brazil's love of Linux

  special report The open-source software definitely gets a warm reception here, but its role can easily be overestimated, too.
  • Digital inclusion, but how?

• GE reshapes the future of wind power

  How to make wind 10 percent of electricity generation? Funky-shaped turbine blades, high-tech materials, and smarter grid connections, says GE's head of wind research.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Computing from the bottom up

  The IT industry is in a qualitatively different place than it once was. The enterprise architects still have a job to do.

  (Posted in The Pervasive Datacenter by Gordon Haff)

• Industry rethinks moneymaking software practice

  Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to load them up with free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you.
  (From The New York Times)

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